Research Projects

ToF - Typology of Francophonies

The Typology of Francophonies throughout the World project (ToF) is aimed at developing a comprehensive description of the distribution of the French language throughout the world. 42 different francophone regions in Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania are analysed according to a uniform set of criteria and a uniform structure.

Brazil's Atlantic Forest: strategies against drastic droughts

Geographers at the University of Passau coordinate a project, that prepares a prevention strategy for the border between the Brazil's Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. The research team collects data for points at which the ecosystem could tip.

European network "WEGO: Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity"

Masculinised mining industry meets equal indigenous society: How does this affect gender and the power relations within the local community? The sociologist Professor Martina Padmanabhan and the Development Economist Professor Michael Grimm found a European network of excellence on Feminist Political Ecology that carefully examines gender relations in the responses to environmental challenges.

IndORGANIC: Passau Researchers prepare real Green Transformation Indonesia

Turning Indonesia organic: Can the agriculture of the world’s largest island country be transformed into a bioeconomy? A research team at the University of Passau explores the potential of organic farming in Indonesia - the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) supports the project with a budget of EUR 882.

LIB(e)RO: Libraries in Europe provide starting aid for minor and young refugees

Libraries collect and preserve the knowledge of societies: Now, libraries in Austria, Germany and Greece explore their potential to make use of this knowledge and establish themselves as intercultural learning environment for refugees - with the help of an e-learning platform.

Environmental education

What does it take to realise sustainable development? When analysing this question, stakeholders from civil society who are willing and able to act take a leading role. Article 36 of the action programme ‘Agenda 21’ adopted during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, already mentions education as a key factor on the path to greater sustainability.